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My mother took a job making the minimum wage in 1985, $3.35 an hour – 2026 value: $10.17 an hour – and that was what she had to raise two kids on, because my father didn’t pay the court-ordered child support, because he was an ass.
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Abigail Spanberger isn’t polling well right now, but I think I’ve got the solution. No, not better policies.
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Man, ol’ Larry Sabato is losing his touch; that, or he was just tailoring his thinking on a recent bad Abigail Spanberger poll number to the audience, in the case of ABC7 in DC, the MAGA-adjacent Sinclair Broadcasting.
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Glenn Youngkin desperately wants a job in the Trump regime, for a reason that I can’t put my finger on: Youngkin has a net worth of $400 million, most of that his equity in the ghastly private-equity firm he led before he ran for governor in 2021.
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Gotta point out the welfare to millionaires, since the MAGAs love to point out the welfare to people who can barely afford to keep the lights on.
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Gotta love the headlines on the Washington Post poll on the Virginia redistricting referendum, which makes things sound dire for Democrats.
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The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
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Joe Rogan — podcaster, UFC commentator, “comedian” — has spent years building the most valuable brand in media on a single premise: what you see is what you get.
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Democrats are saying all the right things about the latest attempt by Donald Trump to write and then pass his own federal law, this one banning mail-in voting, but seriously, this one doesn’t even need to go to court.
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With the deadline for paying federal income taxes fast approaching, the thoughts of American taxpayers turn naturally toward the age-old question: Why isn’t there a fairer tax system?
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